Roc-A-Fella Records co-founder Damon Dash has filed a summons in New York Supreme Court against his ex-wife Rachel Roy for allegedly grossly mismanaging their fashion business, Royale Etenia….

Taylor Swift‘s ‘1989’ is officially louder than AC/DC’s ‘Back In Black’, according to a study conducted by a mastering engineer….

For Kanye West fans, the arrival of a new record is a given. It’s got a name, “So Help Me God.” Producers are attached. He executed his prerequisite stage-storming, attention-grabbing viral moment at the Grammy Awards. Paul McCartney, we have been informed, is heavily involved. West appeared on Coachella stages twice in two days….

Are you over the latest trends in pop music? According to new Spotify research, you may come back again by the time you’re 42….

A list of moves and shakes across the music business, including iHeartMedia’s, Def Jam, The Agency Group, UTA, Warner/Chappell and more!…

After taking a little break from his duties with the Black Keys, Dan Auerbach is plotting the release of a new solo album as the Arcs. There’s no title or release date yet, but the guitarist-producer described the record to Rolling Stone in an interview Friday as a chance to explore his “extra-weird” inclinations….

Hozier thinks it’s “human” to live with uncertainty. The singer’s success has been fairly sudden, with his hit track “Take Me to Church” peaking at number one in charts all over the world….

The Universal Music Group has updated its U.S. structure, dropping the Universal Music Group Distribution name and folding that business into separate commercial enterprise functions within the company. The move follows the retirement of longtime leader Jim Urie last fall. At press time, Billboard had no word of layoffs resulting from the move….

Record Store Day 2015 is only a few days behind us. This is a great event that I hope gets more full-on every year. It has been encouraging to watch it grow all over the world….

The heir to the second-biggest fortune in the world listens to AC/DC in his car and used to DJ at an Acapulco dance club. That’s part of the ­everyman charm exuded by business scion Car­los Slim Domit, the son of Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim Helú, a 75-year-old ­telecommunications mogul (pictured below with Robert De Niro), whose assets…